At the beginning of each year, we do a massive creation of new accounts for students. (Well, not THAT massive but a few hundred anyway) Currently with PMDF listserv our addstudent script on the unix host that holds the student accounts fires off a "subscribe class-of-2001" message to the list server and the student is added.
Mailman has that feature but requires a confirmation of the student before the subscription is added. While most would argue that this is acceptable, Im going to say most students as well as the administrators of those lists will complain to me they want one step adding. Anyway to do this? Perhaps a "subscribe [password] [digest option] [no confirm] address=blah@blah.com"? If im sending the list password (admittedly though unsecure email) this should work the same as if I added them via the web interface.
-Nick
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Nicholas Brenckle Yale University School of Medicine nicholas.brenckle@yale.edu ITS Med - PO Box 208089 203-737-2377 New Haven, CT 06520-8089